With an indescribable heaviness, he slowly descended the stairs, but when he reached the first floor, he almost found his state again, and life had to go on no matter what, because he still had a reason to move forward, and someone he had to take care of.

Even now, there are still people waiting for him to help, thinking of that little girl, Chai Xu couldn't help but cheer up, and after patting his face, he walked towards the hall office.

Walking into the office, a cold wind was blowing in the face, and the reception hall of the Dongcheng Police Station was not large, but it was completely enough to deal with ordinary daily affairs.

His desk was in the corner against the wall, and sitting behind him was Li Chuan, who originally thought that Li Chuan would take care of the child he brought back at his seat, but his place was now empty, and Li Chuan sat in his own seat and read the newspaper intently.

"Uncle Li. ”

Although he was a little dissatisfied, Chai Xu respected Li Chuan very much, although this was the second time they met, Chai Xu could clearly feel the kind of experienced and mature police temperament in Li Chuan, he admired this kind of old police officer with unique skills, often this kind of old police officer in a police station is the real backbone.

"Come back, Lao Zhu said something to you again. ”

Li Chuan's eyes did not leave the newspaper, and he was still holding the teacup in one hand, Chai Xu did not answer his question, but pointed to his position and asked.

“... Uncle Li, let's not talk about this for a while, what about the child I asked you to take care of for me just now? Are you recording a confession in the back room?"

He still had a glimmer of hope, whether Li Chuan asked Xiao Zhang, the female policeman in charge of the reception, to take her to the back room to record a confession, but Li Chuan only replied lightly.

"What nonsense are you talking about. ”

"Huh?"

"What little girl did you bring back. ”

Chai Xu was a little angry, such a big living person, how could this Li Chuan open his eyes and talk nonsense.

"Uncle Li, I'm not kidding you, that child seems to have been lost with her family for a long time, I just came to C City, and I don't know if this information has been posted in the missing person notice in the past two days, but now we..."

Before Chai Xu finished speaking, Li Chuan had already put down the newspaper, and his eagle-like sharp eyes stared at Chai Xu.

"Xiao Chai, don't joke about the missing. ”

Looking at Li Chuan's serious eyes, Chai Xu was angry, but he still controlled his emotions.

"Okay, Uncle Li, I don't fight with you, when I came in just now, the old Wang who was guarding the door also saw the child, I just let the child sit on the battery car and push it back, don't believe it, I will go to Lao Wang with you to ask." ”

Li Chuan's eyes suddenly became a little strange when he looked at Chai Xu, he put down the teacup, took off his glasses, and took Chai Xu's hand to the corridor.

"Xiao Chai, you're really not joking with your uncle?"

"Uncle, shouldn't I ask you this? Why don't you refuse to admit such a big living person? You see, when we were talking here just now, she kept holding my hand. ”

Chai Xu found that when he said what he said just now, Li Chuan's face changed suddenly, as if he had thought of something terrible.

“... You come with me. ”

didn't say much, he took Chai Xu's wrist and walked to the guard box at the entrance of the police station, and after Chai Xu came back, it began to rain lightly in the sky, but at this time, the two of them walked out quickly without even playing an umbrella.

Lao Wang, who was still listening to the radio, saw the two of them walking towards him in the rain, and he was also puzzled, but he still welcomed the two of them in, and moved the location of the small stove to the two of them.

"What's going on? Lao Li, the umbrella is not supported, what's the urgency?"

Li Chuan didn't say much, pulled Chai Xu to Lao Wang's side and said.

"Xiao Chai, you ask yourself. ”

No need for Li Chuan to say, Chai Xu will also ask to understand, he first smiled politely, and said to Lao Wang gently.

"Uncle Wang, I'm the new Xiaochai, the one who just took office today. ”

"Well, I remember you, what's the matter?"

Lao Wang felt that something seemed to be wrong, so he turned off the red radio on the table and looked straight at Chai Xu, waiting for his next step.

"Uncle Wang, didn't I just come back from a field trip? You should have seen me too, right? I was at that time..."

Before Chai Xu finished speaking, Lao Wang smiled, patted Li Chuan's arm and said.

"I know, I know, I know about this, Comrade Xiaochai's patrol car is out of power, I saw him pushing it back, I prove this, how many years has the broken car of my mother, and you actually turned it out for the newcomer to patrol again, on such a cold day, Xiaochai pushed the broken car back alone, can you have a good conscience?"

Chai Xu listened to Lao Wang's words, and sighed in his heart, like an electric shock, his body shook violently, and then he immediately pressed Lao Wang's shoulder and said with some excitement.

"Uncle Wang, it's not like this, you may not have noticed, there is a little girl in my car seat, it is a lost child I brought back from outside today, she was sitting in my car seat at the time, so I pushed her back... of..."

Lao Wang looked at Chai Xu, as if he was looking at a psychopath, his face was puzzled, he turned his head, looked at Li Chuan a little inexplicably and said.

“... What are you talking about, Xiao Chai?"

“... Uncle Wang, you may not have noticed, I really had a child on the chair at the time, quite a cute child, she and her father got lost, so I took her back to the office. ”

Lao Wang's head shook like a rattle, he pushed Chai Xu's hand away, and said with some anger.

"Young man, you can say that I am old, but my eyesight is first-class, I used to be born as a scout, my old Wang asked himself to sit in the duty room of the Dongcheng police station, and he has never looked away once, if you don't believe it, we will go to monitor it." ”

Seeing that Lao Wang was also on the bar, Li Chuan hurriedly interjected and said.

"Okay, okay, Lao Wang, Xiao Chai didn't mean that. ”

"Then what does he mean? said I didn't see it, such a big living person, how could I not see it, still sitting on the car chair, inexplicable, he was pushing the battery car back alone, I can see it clearly!"

Lao Wang's face turned a little red in the end, but Chai Xu was stunned in place, he fell into a kind of confusion, and watched Lao Wang's mouth crackle and say a lot of words, but he couldn't listen to a word.

Li Chuan glanced at Chai Xu, and knew that he should be the most unclear person now, so he patted Lao Wang's shoulder and whispered in his ear.

“... The plagued old Zhu let him go to the pawn shop next to the old park today. ”

As soon as this sentence came out, Lao Wang, who was still talking non-stop just now, froze suddenly, his mouth was half open, and the words he was about to say were swallowed back by him, his eyes wandered away from Li Chuan and Chai Xu, and finally, he looked at Chai Xu with a trace of sympathy.

“... This old Zhu is still staring at that piece of meat, how can he not let this kid... Who doesn't know that place... No, it's not clean, go there ... How's that... Normal people..."

"Okay, old Wang, look back at what kind of place we are, and don't talk about those strange and deceitful heresies. ”

Li Chuan said something to Lao Wang as if comforting, and then patted Chai Xu's back, and took him out of the duty booth with a blank face.

"Uncle... This... What the hell is going on, I, I really see..."

The two stood still under the eaves of the building, because it was relatively quiet now, and it was close to the end of work for the two of them, so Li Chuan did not let Chai Xu return to the office hall as soon as possible, but brought him here, and lit a cigarette for himself by the way.

"Smoke?"

didn't rush to answer Chai Xu's question, Li Chuan first handed a cigarette to Chai Xu, Chai Xu took the cigarette, put it in his mouth a little rusty, and then he looked at Li Chuan like this.

"Fuck off, stinky boy, do you want Lao Tzu to light you a cigarette?"

Li Chuan scolded and threw a 2 yuan lighter to Chai Xu, watching Chai Xu's smoking, Li Chuan smiled contemptuously.

"Stinky boy, don't pick it up if you don't smoke, there are some things, it's still not good. ”

Seeing that he was exposed, Chai Xu smiled a little awkwardly and explained.

"I can smoke, but very little. ”

After these few words, Chai Xu found that his mood was a little soothed, but the girl was still haunting his heart like a cloud in the sky now, and he couldn't figure out what was going on.

There was a brief silence between the two, as if all that was left was the sound of raindrops dripping from the eaves.

"Uncle, what do you know?"

The first to break the silence was Chai Xu, after all, he was young and saw too few things, especially this kind of bizarre and strange thing, even if he had excellent grades in the police academy, even city leaders often saw him in various competitions, but after all, he was just a newly graduated child, and he was not familiar with life here, he subconsciously regarded this experienced old policeman Li Chuan as a lifesaver.

"Xiao Chai, there are some things, we as policemen, we can't say it, we can't believe it, but it won't disappear because we don't recognize it. ”

Chai Xu held the cigarette between his fingers, looked at Li Chuan suspiciously, and asked tentatively.

"Uncle, what you are talking about is that strange forces are chaotic, how old are you and you still believe in these?"

Li Chuan was not angry at Chai Xu's disdain, sighed slightly, and said lightly after taking a puff of cigarette.

"It's true that I used to scoff at these things when I was your age, not to mention that we are still police officers, we should believe in science, but... Alas, Xiao Chai, that kid, you met at the pawn shop?"

Chai Xu nodded.

"What is the attitude of the boss towards her? ”

Speaking of the pawn shop owner, Chang Ziming, Chai Xu was angry, he didn't have a good impression of the man, he just felt that he was extremely weird, and there was an indescribable sense of disobedience between his mannerisms and behaviors.

"That boss isn't a good thing. ”

Chai Xu took a deep puff of cigarette, puffed the smoke out of his nose, and said resentfully.

"It's probably not the first time that child has asked her for help, and I don't know exactly why... But the man actually viciously told the kid to get out, I really can't stand it, but it's good that the kid met me today, otherwise..."

Thinking of that cute little girl, Chai Xu's heart was anxious again, of course he didn't believe in those gods and ghosts, after smoking a cigarette and calming his head, he still insisted that the girl just escaped because she was afraid when she went to Director Zhu's office, as for why she was afraid of the police station... We'll have to wait until we find her.

Li Chuan looked at Chai Xu and seemed to understand that even if he said anything now, Chai Xu would not believe it, and it was better to let him see some things with his own eyes.

So he took one last puff of cigarette, extinguished the cigarette butt on the lid of the trash can beside him, patted Chai Xu's shoulder, and said with a smile.

"Okay, Xiao Chai, maybe that kid is just playing a prank, now she may have gone home, in this way, you arrived at work on the first day today, and the house was not cleaned up, Uncle bought some supper in the evening, went to your house to see you, and helped you clean up your room." ”

Chai Xu now lives in the empty house of his relatives, which is also a small house in the old city, although the house is simple, the surrounding environment is a little poor, but the inside of the house is also clean, Chai Xu has not been a pampered son since he was a child, it is enough to have a shelter from the wind and rain, but he is a little reluctant to trouble Li Chuan to help him clean up.

Just wanted to shirk it, Li Chuan had already waved his hand with a smile, left him and walked into the building.